AP/HUMA 2001
Understanding Culture: Text, Image, Music
2026 (attachment filename)
Topics
- Cultural representation and mediation
- Sound, music and digital infrastructure
- Interfaces and cultural production
- Music streaming, algorithms and identity
- Practical sound design, synthesis and recording
Readings
- Selected assigned reading: David Novak and Matt Sakakeeny, editors, Keywords in Sound.
- Selected assigned reading: Jeremy Wade Morris, Music Platforms and the Optimization of Culture.
- Selected assigned reading: Stefano Barone, The Digital Infrastructures of Music Scenes: Perspectives from the Global South.
- Selected assigned reading: Judith Klassen, What Is Canadian? Popular Music and National Identity.
- Selected assigned reading: Jonathan De Souza, What Can You Do with the Ukulele? Instruments and Musical Affordances.
- Selected assigned reading: Vanessa Chang, Records That Play: The Present Past in Sampling Practice.
- Selected assigned reading: Alexander Galloway, The Unworkable Interface.
- Selected assigned reading: Thor Magnusson, Of Epistemic Tools: Musical Instruments as Cognitive Extensions.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Public short course outline (tentative) ↗2026 (attachment filename)
- Selected bibliography from a longer public list. Full-year short planning outline; exact session is not printed.